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- ↓ 0.01
- ꩜ 0.11
- ↑ 4.95
{R} → Dual Turbo : 20
Choose up to 2 of your Benched Pokémon and attach a Basic {R} Energy card from your discard pile to each of them.
{R}{C}{C}{C} → Heavy Impact : 120
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It expels its internal steam from the arms on its back. It has enough power to blow away a mountain.
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Charmaster
The funniest part is that its second attack is arguably WORSE than the original Dual Turbo Volcanion from nine years before! 100 damage for 3 Energy was only okay in 2016 because you had Volcanion EX’s Ability to boost that damage output, and because your deck was already designed around attaching 3 Fire Energy to a bunch of Fire type basics. Tacking on a fourth Energy wouldn’t have been worth the extra damage in 2016, and it certainly isn’t worth it today!
… although I AM seeing an alarming number of single-prize basics that still do 80-100 damage for 3 Energy.
https://pkmncards.com/?s=hp%3E%3D130+stage%3Abasic+hp%3C%3D180
I do wish they had made this card mechanically identical to the original so people could just randomly add a 2016 rare to their decks. We’ve sort of seen this happen with Celestial Storm Dunsparce, but because that card was a literal translation of the Japanese 2003 Dunsparce and the actual Sandstorm print was a botched translation… Americans couldn’t bust out their Sandstorm Dunsparce. :( In a similar vein, you can take an Evolutions Electabuzz to a Base-Fossil or Prop 15/3 event, but you can’t take a Base Set Electabuzz to a 2016 or 2017 event (Not that you’d want to), because the Metal weakness is significant in the modern era but irrelevant in eras before the Metal type existed.